Riduan Isamuddin

Riduan Isamuddin (4 April 1964-), also known as Hambali, was the military leader of Jemaah Islamiyah and the third-in-command of al-Qaeda from 2003 to 2005, succeeding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Biography
Riduan Isamuddin was born on 4 April 1964 in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. Isamuddin was the second of thirteen children in a rice farming family, and in 1983 he traveled to Afghanistan to fight in the Soviet-Afghan War with the Mujahideen, meeting Osama bin Laden there. Isamuddin later returned to Indonesia and met Abdullah Sungkar, and he became the military leader of Jemaah Islamiyah. In 2002, he planned the 2002 Bali bombings, and in 2005 he was captured in a joint United States-Thailand operation, and he was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.